Last week's eurozone deal would probably have unravelled anyway, given that Greece cannot pay its way, that the eurozone bank recapitalisation programme is too leisurely, that the bailout fund does not yet exist and that fiscal consolidation, however desirable, still remains a long way off.

When both players dramatically signed for West Ham United in August 2006 after starring for Argentina at the World Cup in Germany, it gradually unravelled that they were not registered to West Ham but loaned, and still "owned" by offshore companies based in tax havens.

So I heartily hope that this is simply a little soap-operatic twist to the initial set-up, to be unravelled as the series progresses, with our blackhearted bumboy prince finding an ally rather than an adversary in the hero.

In this awkward transition period, The familiar lulling noises -- car horn and dog bark, the late commuter train's slither and the main drag's murmur -- had become irritants, the town had unravelled into tugging threads of love.